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The family story tells, and it was told true, of my great-grandfather who begat eight genius children and bought twelve almost new grand pianos. He left a considerable estate when he died. -- Anne Sexton
My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future. -- Lisa Whelchel
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept. -- Nancy Gibbs
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When you hear the party that glorified Occupy Wall Street blast success; when you hear them minimize the genius of the men and women who make jobs out of nothing, is that what you teach your children about work? -- Artur Davis
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. -- Giorgio Vasari
A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone. -- Alice Walker
There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not. -- Michael Morpurgo
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The genius of art finds sanctuary among children and madmen to survive.That is who we are. -- Marilyn Manson
The most genius ideas are in the minds of children and lunatics. I describe myself as somewhere in between. -- Marilyn Manson
Every family should have at least three children. Then if one is a genius the other two can support him. -- George Gibson Coote
I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius, but it really was a lucky break. -- Joan Ganz Cooney
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Could it be we stifle our children's genius by languaging them too quickly away from their hearts and into the straight and narrow confines of linear thinking? -- Victor Villasenor

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